Re: [gentoo-user] iproute2 reference

[Mick]

On Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:22:18 BST Andrew Udvare wrote:
> > On 2018-06-10, at 09:15, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm trying to learn how to use the "ip" command to manage routing on one
> > of my boxes, which has two Ethernet interfaces.
>
> If you're using systemd, you can set it up with systemd.network in
> /etc/systemd/network. I do this on my router. However I was unable to get
> my IPv6 6rd tunnel working this way. For IPv4 DHCP or static it works fine.
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-networkd#Configuration_examples
> > Can anyone recommend suitable reading material? I don't mind paying for a
> > book, provided that it's reasonably up to date and won't bury me in a
> > morass of bit patterns, OSI transport layers and so on. Just the stuff
> > that a network admin would need.
>
> man ip (relatively minimal, but not as minimal as ip --help)
>
> https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-ip-command-examples-usage-syntax/ is in
> my bookmarks
>
> https://access.redhat.com/sites/default/files/attachments/rh_ip_command_chea
> tsheet_1214_jcs_print.pdf
>
> bash-completion comes with ip command support.
>
> My script to set up my IPv6 6rd tunnel on my router:
>
> ip tunnel del sit-6rd
> ip tunnel add sit-6rd mode sit local "$IPV4_ADDR" ttl 64 dev enp1s0f0
> ip tunnel 6rd dev sit-6rd 6rd-prefix 2602::/24
>
> ip link set sit-6rd mtu 1480
> ip link set sit-6rd up
>
> ip -6 addr add "$IPV6_ADDR" dev sit-6rd
> ip -6 route add 2000::/3 via "::$IPV4_BR_ADDR"
> ip -6 route add default via "::$IPV4_BR_ADDR"
>
> Andrew

To thumb through the man pages you need to extend man ip with the OBJECT.  
Same applies with --help pages.

For example, to read the help page of 'ip address':

 ip address help

the corresponding man page is:

 man ip-address

-- 
Regards,
Mick